Use Quick Look to Preview Spotlight Results in Ventura

When you search using Spotlight on the Mac, it provides a decent amount of information about each result, including name and other metadata. But what if you want to see what’s behind the search result? In macOS 13 Ventura, Apple added Quick Look support to Spotlight so you can easily preview the search results. [...]

By |2023-02-01T17:43:43-04:00February 21st, 2023|Mac Tips|Comments Off on Use Quick Look to Preview Spotlight Results in Ventura

Need to Resize Images in Various Ways? Give Preview a Try

Even those of us who don’t work with graphics professionally often find ourselves needing to resize images. Perhaps you have a large square headshot, but the site to which you’re uploading requires it to be exactly 100 by 100 pixels. Or maybe you have an iPhone 13 Pro photo that’s 4032 by 3024, but [...]

By |2021-11-01T17:55:23-04:00December 3rd, 2021|Mac Tips|Comments Off on Need to Resize Images in Various Ways? Give Preview a Try

Forget Adobe Acrobat: Preview May Be All You Need to Work with PDFs

We regularly hear from people who think they need Adobe Acrobat DC to manipulate PDFs. Don’t misunderstand: Adobe Acrobat is the gold standard, but it’s complicated and expensive—$14.99 per month or as part of Creative Cloud for $52.99 per month. In contrast, Apple’s Preview is easy and free with macOS. Here are six tasks [...]

By |2021-02-22T19:52:19-04:00March 12th, 2021|Mac Tips|Comments Off on Forget Adobe Acrobat: Preview May Be All You Need to Work with PDFs
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